Posted on 01/04/2019 11:15:53 AM PST by Jyotishi
Anyone with half an ounce of brains immediately knew in 2009 that the Nobel Peace Prize committee was making itself look foolish for giving Barack Obama its top award even though he had only been president for about five minutes. Now the group's former secretary is admitting that the whole thing was a huge mistake.
Nobel's former secretary, Geir Lundestad, told the media that he thought giving Obama the award would spur him to great accomplishments. Instead, Obama did nothing of note over the next eight years.
Lundestad addressed the foolhardy decision in his recently published autobiography, according to the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
Mr Lundestad, writing in his memoir, Secretary of Peace, said even Mr. Obama himself had been surprised.
"No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama," Mr. Lundestad writes.
"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," he says. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for".
Lundestad that at first Obama greeted the situation with some good sense and initially said he did not even want to come pick the thing up.
But, soon enough his natural (and proper) embarrassment at being given the award for no logical reason was overcome by his arrogance and desire for personal adulation. He went and picked it up in person anyway.
Of course, Obama's detractors here in the U.S.A. widely made fun of the idiotic award.
As well they should. Obama did not deserve any "peace prize" before he had even fairly begun his first term. And eight years later, even Lundestad now admits that Obama did nothing even after two terms to deserve it.
It's about time they admit it.
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Just cry in your beer. Don’t even think about giving our President one. I for one would discourage him from taking that piece of junk!! It’s tainted.
I should put my name in to get one for Literature. Then I can write something of great value and worth to the world.
Maybe we should give all sports and entertainment trophies to people who haven’t started their careers yet, in great hopes. Such a sound idea for great achievement in the future.
We could have given him that information for free at the time.
so, withdraw the award
Makes complete sense - to under achievers.
LOL xlnt
Hope is for dopes.
I guess its to late to withdraw obama?
Wasn’t 2009 the same year Obama won the Heisman as well as an Oscar?
Well, you're wrong there, Buckwheat. There isn't a supporter of Bathhouse Barry who thinks that's the case. They believe he's the most amazing and special person ever to draw breath. If anything, they think that Obama would have won more had it not been for the racism of the Nobel Committee which is now obvious for all to see from Lundestad's book.
“Regrets, I have a few.
But then again, too few to mention.”
Geir Lundestad, a day late and a dollar short.
You, sir, are in dire need of having your mental capabilities checked and realigned.
I like that idea.
I think I’ll ask the UFC to give me a championship belt for being the best MMA fighter, even though I’ve never had so much as an amateur bout and I’m 52 years old. But hey, a few Scandinavians think I’ve got potential to do great things.
Growing up I Always thought the Nobel Prize was something special.
Now I look at is as horse crap just like i view obammy.
How dumb do you have to be, not to be able to figure that out before the blessed event?
This was a real bench mark on the decline of human civilization.
Don’t laugh, nearly half our populace seems afflicted by the same degenerative infestation.
got the benefit of the ‘we love closet commie’ for 10 years after politicizing the Nobel prize
Its understood by many to be worthless now when dimmbulbs like this one gave it to obama for not actually doing anything.
Its kinda affirmative action on the world stage
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